A53688:1271
The Doctrine of the Saints' Perseverance
The doctrine of the saints perseverance, explained and confirmed, or, The certain permanency of their 1. acceptation with God & 2. sanctification from God manifested & proved from the 1. eternal principles 2. effectual causes 3. external means thereof ... vindicated in a full answer to the discourse of Mr. John Goodwin against it, in his book entitled Redemption redeemed : with some digressions concerning 1. the immediate effects of the death of Christ ... : with a discourse touching the epistles of Ignatius, the Episcopacy in them asserted, and some animadversions on Dr. H.H. his dissertations on that subject / by John Owen ...The doctrine of the saints perseverance, explained and confirmed, or, The certain permanency of their 1. acceptation with God & 2. sanctification from God manifested & proved from the 1. eternal principles 2. effectuall causes 3. externall meanes thereof ... vindicated in a full answer to the discourse of Mr. John Goodwin against it, in his book entituled Redemption redeemed : with some degressions concerning 1. the immediate effects of the death of Christ ... : with a discourse touching the epistles of Ignatius, the Episcopacy in them asserted, and some animadversions on Dr. H.H. his dissertations on that subject / by John Owen ...
London: printed by Leon. Lichfield, 1654
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The stress of the whole, (as far as we are concerned in it) lieth on the Minor, which is thus farther attempted to be made good: The Minor Proposition is Demonstrated thus, The Doctrine which rendereth the Labour and Faithfulness of a Minister in pressing such Exhortations, Threatenings, and Promises, which tend to the preservation of the Saints, in Faith and holiness to the end, useless, rendereth the Ministry of the Gospel, as far as it concerneth the encouragement, or enabling of the Saints to Persevere, needless and vain: but guilty of such a tendency as this, is the commonly received Doctrine of Perseverance: Ergo.
The stresse of the whole, (as farre as we are concerned in it) lieth on the Minor, which is thus farther attempted to be made good: The Minor Proposition is Demonstrated thus, The Doctrine which rendreth the Labour and Faithfulnesse of a Minister in pressing such Exhortations, Threatnings, and Promises, which tend to the preservation of the Saints, in Faith and holinesse to the end, uselesse, rendreth the Ministry of the Gospell, as farre as it concerneth the encouragement, or inabling of the Saints to Persevere, needlesse and vaine: but guilty of such a tendency as this, is the commonly received Doctrine of Perseverance: Ergo.
Ans. This labour might have been saved, and both these Syllogisms very easily reduced to one: but then another seeming Argument (as we shall find afterwards) insisted on, would have been prevented. Our trade in such cases as this is by weight, and not by number: the Minor then, is still to be confirmed; which he laboureth thus to do.
Ans. This labour might have been saved, and both these Syllogismes very easily reduced to one: but then another seeming Argument (as we shall find afterwards) insisted on, would have been prevented. Our trade in such cases as this is by weight, and not by number: the Minor then, is still to be confirmed; which he laboureth thus to doe.